November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
Rob Eichler, a boom operator for the city of Petoskey, lifted a 1,200 pound Civil War cannon out of the backyard of a Petoskey resident’s home Tuesday afternoon.
According to officials from the Petoskey Department of Public Safety, who located the cannon today after a month-long Internet investigation as to its whereabouts, describe it as an [...]
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October 19, 2009 | Posted by javal
John P. Sinclair lay in an unmarked grave for 95 years, his plot tucked between other local Civil War veterans under a stand of gnarled old trees in historic Oakwood Cemetery.
Sinclair, an Ohio native and sergeant with the Union Army, died near the shores of Long Lake in 1913 and was buried in the cemetery [...]
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October 13, 2009 | Posted by javal
It may be early but the committee that sponsors and coordinates the now annual Memorial Day weekend Civil War Reenactments got the city of Coldwater to again allocate $3,000 for the program at its Monday night council meeting.
Treasurer Walt Lane said the amount necessary for the program is $14,000, the rest of which will come [...]
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October 5, 2009 | Posted by javal
On the Road Again by Willie Nelson could be the theme song for the Sept. 10 relocation of the two monuments moved from the front of Birmingham’s City Hall.
This latest re-location, part of the much anticipated expansion of Birmingham’s Shain Park, is the third move for the 1869 Civil War Monument, and second for the [...]
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September 28, 2009 | Posted by javal
Elected the 16th president of the United States in 1860, Abraham Lincoln took office at a time of great turmoil. By the time he was sworn in, seven states had already seceded from the Union.
A national traveling exhibit, Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War at Eastern Michigan University’s Bruce T. Halle Library explores Lincoln’s [...]
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September 25, 2009 | Posted by javal
When Henry McKendree “Mack” Ewing wrote his beloved wife, Nan, on July 3, 1864, while he lay injured in a hospital in Virginia, he had no way of knowing that letter someday would be available for anyone on the entire planet to view.
But thanks to technological advances that have occurred over the past 145 years [...]
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September 24, 2009 | Posted by javal
The Archives of Michigan today helped put history ? vivid, you-are-there history ? into the hands and on the computer screens of Michigan and Civil War enthusiasts everywhere. Today marked the launch of the digitized collection of Mack and Nan Ewing Civil War Letters, available on the Seeking Michigan Web site, www.SeekingMichigan.org. The collection – [...]
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September 24, 2009 | Posted by javal
One of Ypsilanti’s historic landmarks was lost early Wednesday morning when the Thompson Block building was consumed by fire.
Fire officials would not speculate as to the cause of the blaze in Ypsilanti’s Depot Town district, which consumed the old Civil War barracks originally constructed in 1861.
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September 21, 2009 | Posted by javal
Harmon Paddelford was 24 years old when he said goodbye to his sweetheart and left his home in Lansing to go to war.
But unlike so many young soldiers who have said similar farewells in recent years, Paddelford wasn’t headed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The trip he made 147 years ago was to Washington, D.C., where [...]
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September 21, 2009 | Posted by javal
Approximately 40 people turned out Sept. 13 for a memorial service for Civil War veteran Abner Delos Austin, who’s buried in Clarenceville Ceremony in Livonia.
Kristina Austin Scarcelli of Canton Township, Austin’s great-great-granddaughter, said she was honored that so many people would attend the service to remember her ancestor’s contributions of 150 years ago.
“It was really, [...]
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